“FROM BEST DESIGN TO JUST DESIGN” by TOMMI LAITIO From OPEN DESIGN NOW

2012/12/17 Master‘s Program of the Graduate School of Media and Governance 1 year

Daisuke Nakahara

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Problem institution

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- Can open design contribute to the world’s bigger problems, such as depletion and squandering of natural resources, population growth, consumerism and widespread poverty?

- Can pooling knowledge and resources , re-evaluating the concept of time, and facilitating user participation help open design make a strong contribution to sustainability?

The author

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Tommi Latio “open design is a tool to solve problems that arise from systemic moral bankruptcy. Building stronger communities along the way.”

Background

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- Exhaustion of environmental resources

- Population explosion

- consumer society is not stopped

Method for Production and distribution are needed to a full paradigm shift.

- Minor tweaks to traditional methods will no longer suffice.

- e.g. classic approaches to market segmentation no longer function

Social design

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- Social design covers a range between products and services, creating to solve problems in society

- Open design is part of a shift from ‘wow design’ to ‘we design’. e.g. Fab Labs

Social design

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Social design

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Strong local communities e.g. Open Source Washing Machine This was a project aiming to build a cheap open-source washing machinine in developing countries for local comminities.

Social design

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Strong local communities e.g. Take Loppukiri

- Loneliness/helpless or useless

- Build a house and a community

Concept of time

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- Open design requires a re-evaluation of the concept of time.

- People are willing to contribute more time to shared initiatives when they have a sense of the common good.

Concept of time

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Although many people from both groups will remain in or enter the labour market, the number of people who have nothing meaningful to do is still growing.

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Thank you.